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Re: What to do with autonomous

quick question. Shaft encoders? What the heck are those? Do you really need much more precision than triangualtion, 2 accelerometers, and a gyro or 2 can give you? I'm planning on having one major positioning system with 2 sub ones. I.e. Range sensing triangualtion, then triangulation based on angles, than accel and gyro combined. Oh, and a quick way to do trig is make a datasheet and interpolate. If you choose your points right, you will be off by %.04 at the most and still only use something along the lines of 10 lines of code.

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